Word: tended
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Indeed it has. The early winter's deep snows drove more than 500 hungry moose out of Alaska's Chugach Mountains and into Anchorage to forage for food. Normally shy creatures, moose tend to get ornery when hungry and are not readily moved by either cold reason or warm talk. At the hospital, a herd of seven moose, ranging in size from 350-lb. calves to half-ton adults, adopted the parking lot as their winter home. There they munched contentedly on recently planted shrubs; occasionally they charged at cars and employees. Hunting laws prevent forceful dealing with...
Reagan's patchy record in foreign affairs, though, is reviving the reputations of some who used to tend the store. Zbigniew Brzezinski, once associated with the confusions of Carter's policy, now gets respectful attention in the papers. So does Carter, when he is talking about Arabs and Israelis. Henry Kissinger, anathema to Reagan's right-wing supporters, has been called in as a consultant by Secretary of State George Shultz. "The reason guru-grabbing has come into such vogue is that a strategy vacuum exists within the divided Reagan White House," writes conservative Columnist William Safire...
...problems, the U.S. still has a fairly flexible labor market. There has been hardly any increase in remuneration per head, after adjusting for inflation, since 1967. Europe suffers from rigid labor markets in which costs never go down or even stabilize. As a result, recessions in Europe now tend to be severe, while booms prove short-lived...
...much Western press coverage, the territory is more often called by its official label--South-West Africa--than by the native derivative it will supposedly assume when and if it gains its independence. The longer Western viewers think of it as South-West Africa, the more they tend to blur its saga together with that of South Africa--the nation which has held power in Namibia since 1920 under a League of Nations mandate, and which still refuses to relinquish the territory despite repeated World Court and United Nations demands...
...lists like this," says Jonathan Moore of Harvard, "that make you think the people inside politics aren't so bad after all." Nothing personal, he hastens to add, but the outside types tend to be "onedimensional in experience...